Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages

Released on by Karen De Clercq
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  • Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages Book Detail

  • Author : Karen De Clercq
  • Release Date : 2022-12-27
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Genre : Grammar, Comparative and general
  • Pages : 393
  • ISBN 13 : 0197651143
  • File Size : 56,56 MB
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Adverbial Resumption in Verb Second Languages by Karen De Clercq PDF Summary

Book Description: "In verb second (V2) languages, the finite verb typically appears in the second position of the main clause. Languages displaying this configuration typically also allow patterns in which a nominal element at the left edge of the clause is resumed by a nominal constituent which is an argument inside the sentence, effectively leading to a Verb Third (V3) pattern. Such patterns have been studied for a long time; on the other hand, a similar pattern in which an initial adverbial constituent is resumed by a clause-internal element has been much less studied. The latter pattern is referred to as 'adverbial resumption' and it also has the character of being a V3 phenomenon. Therefore, the pattern is labelled 'adverbial V3 resumption' or 'adverbial V3'. Interestingly, adverbial resumption is absent from languages that do not have a V2 pattern, while those languages do display argumental resumption"--

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